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Dollar Bill

Dollar Bill SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 82 Mason-Dixon Lines        82 SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 83 Small-town  station, morning show, still doing a gospel number every hour. Who’s listening? Bacon tenders, baby sitters. He yucks it up for the insurance office crew, the stop-in, mini-mart gas shacks. He’s on the counter at The Hub, talking coffee cups up and down. A clown, a daily goofball, regular as sun-up and death, he reads the obits from the local paper and sometimes adds a personal note. Even the disembodied here have an anecdote. Dashboard and countertop, new tunes and same old same old, beer on sale, car tires, paint, link sausage, the grind and groove of tune. We’re coming up on noon. Outside, in the parking lot, sparrows bathe in the dust. Empires rise and fall. He’ll notice and say nothing of it on the air. To celebrate the release of our poetry editor Michael Chitwood’s new book, Gospel Road Going, the editors requested a poem from that work, which appears here courtesy of Tryon Publishing Com- pany. His new collection of poems also contains “ The Great Wagon Road http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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University of North Carolina Press
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 Center for the Study of the American South.
ISSN
1534-1488

Abstract

SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 82 Mason-Dixon Lines        82 SC 9.2-Mason-Dixon Lines 5/27/03 1:29 PM Page 83 Small-town  station, morning show, still doing a gospel number every hour. Who’s listening? Bacon tenders, baby sitters. He yucks it up for the insurance office crew, the stop-in, mini-mart gas shacks. He’s on the counter at The Hub, talking coffee cups up and down. A clown, a daily goofball, regular as sun-up and death, he reads the obits from the local paper and sometimes adds a personal note. Even the disembodied here have an anecdote. Dashboard and countertop, new tunes and same old same old, beer on sale, car tires, paint, link sausage, the grind and groove of tune. We’re coming up on noon. Outside, in the parking lot, sparrows bathe in the dust. Empires rise and fall. He’ll notice and say nothing of it on the air. To celebrate the release of our poetry editor Michael Chitwood’s new book, Gospel Road Going, the editors requested a poem from that work, which appears here courtesy of Tryon Publishing Com- pany. His new collection of poems also contains “ The Great Wagon Road

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: May 30, 2003

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